Five in a row seems strange. Are you sure it isn't the motor? What does the log say?

This is a two year old airframe though still like new but have a few fire remains inside the cowl and a few dings on trailing edge of the rudder due to loss of power while hovering. This started from the first one which I guess was rev. 1. Burned during flight so was replaced by a rev. 2. Lost power again, was advised by Castle to change some settings but lost power again. It was replaced by Castle which lost power again (burned) during that time found that it was part of a recall so they sent me this new one ICE2. It lost power again during flight and now been advised to change some settings.

Some of those bad one would show some crazy numbers in the log file which you will not believe and not even possible i.e, 12,000 amps and 42,000W.

The good thing is that between me and my friend we only paid for one controller to begin with and all these in between were replaced free of charge. Some were replaced before even sending the old ones and did receive prepaid shipping envelops to send back the bad ones.

With the exception of a few of my electric planes, all I have are Castle controllers.

This is a two year old airframe though still like new but have a few fire remains inside the cowl and a few dings on trailing edge of the rudder due to loss of power while hovering. This started from the first one which I guess was rev. 1. Burned during flight so was replaced by a rev. 2. Lost power again, was advised by Castle to change some settings but lost power again. It was replaced by Castle which lost power again (burned) during that time found that it was part of a recall so they sent me this new one ICE2. It lost power again during flight and now been advised to change some settings.

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That's a lot of faith in Castle

So two original ICE fires, three cut-outs. I would double-check the setup, in particular the motor. An HV160 pushing a 10lb plane has no right to cut out. ESC fires were a very specific issue; the loss of power might point to some other problem, not necessarily with the ESC itself.

So two original ICE fires, three cut-outs. I would double-check the setup, in particular the motor. An HV160 pushing a 10lb plane has no right to cut out. ESC fires were a very specific issue; the loss of power might point to some other problem, not necessarily with the ESC itself.

There is nothing complicated to the setup. It has a hacker motor and a BEC Pro on a separate battery for the RX. The setup and the motor runs fine when it runs. It escaped all the times till the last one when it broke the LG.

The faith is truly there with the hope that they will sort out the issues. At one point thought about converting the 71 to a 30CC gas though but I have enough gas planes now.

I found out today about the slick and it sucks to see the pics but glad its not that bad plus you are making progress fixxing it. That was the original landing gear and wheel pants. I changed the wheels though to bigger ones.

No its a one elevator servo deal. It was recommended that I would need to move the rudder servo to the back and that bit me in the ass. As over powered as this thing is I may just move the receiver battery as far forward as possible and see what that gets me and if that does not work then think about moving that tail servo.

No its a one elevator servo deal. It was recommended that I would need to move the rudder servo to the back and that bit me in the ass. As over powered as this thing is I may just move the receiver battery as far forward as possible and see what that gets me and if that does not work then think about moving that tail servo.

That's why if a plane might be "iffy", then I wait until the end of the build and tape the servo and linkage into position (where it would mount) on the tail... That way I can make sure where it will go, without cutting any covering....